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Jess O’Reilly, Regional Vice President, Marketing Cloud, Asia, Salesforce
Brandon Schulz, Director, Retail Vertical, Luxoft [NYSE:LXFT]
Sahal Laher, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Destination XL Group, Inc. [NASDAQ: DXLG]
Vish Ganapathy, VP, Partner, IBM Industry Academy Member for Consumer Industries
Retailers are facing increased pressure from competitors abroad, traditional manufacturer brands going direct, and new business models from digitally native startups.
Courtney Graybill, Vice President, Customer Experience & Product Management, David's Bridal
Courtney Graybill devises customer experience roadmaps and executes on those strategies to drive shopper engagements for David’s Bridal.
Brett Thoreson, CEO & Co-Founder, CartStack
E-commerce is a growing industry, with more customers and retailers entering the market - driving advertising and bid prices up.
Mohan Krishnaraj, Global Head of User Experience at HARMAN, a Samsung company
The future of designing for Zero UI requires a more comprehensive look at, well, the human experience.
Jonathan Low, Ex-Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, honestbee
E-commerce has been cited as the “most dynamic sector” of Southeast Asia’s online economy.
Nicholas P. Resetar, Associate Attorney, Roetzel & Andress
By now, it is safe to say that Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and MySpace are not merely fads that temporarily captured the attention span of the entire globe.
Justin Honaman, VP & GM, PRGX
Amazon did not take over the entire Retail world. Apple Pay did not eliminate the cash equation in retail stores. Drones are not yet delivering product to our homes.
David Jensen, Director of Ecommerce Engineering, Photobox
Technology has grown from an ignored support function to a position of leadership, setting an example for the rest of the business.
Matan Holander, VP Business Development
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has evolved at multiple levels. Evidently, understanding the unique purchasing preferences of the modern day buyers have become increasingly critical to the long-term growth of B2B merchants.
Jeff Huckaby, Segment Director, Retail and Consumer Goods, Tableau Software [NASDAQ: DATA]
Business intelligence norms are evolving across the retail industry, and leading retailers are prioritizing analytics initiatives as a result.
Andy Mulcahy, Strategy and Insight Director, IMRG
We have all had occasions where we’ve felt that a lack of cutting-edge technology is holding us back. ‘If only this system could talk to this one’; ‘if we put an AI solution in there, it would improve our efficiency exponentially’ etc.
Brett Beveridge, Founder & President, The Retail Outsource Companies
To say the landscape of retail is changing, is an almost absurd understatement.
Brad Bernstein, SVP of North American Sales, Nanorep
No question, the growth of e-commerce has completely changed the game for retail customer service.
Shirish Lal, COO & CTO, Harte Hanks [NYSE:HHS]
The last five years has seen a dramatic change in CMO’s engagement in technology decisions. From Gartner declaring the CMO will make more IT purchasing decisions.
Advait Kulkarni, IT Director, Cetera Financial Group
By 2020, it is estimated that the value of e-commerce sales will have topped $4 Trillion.
Christian Beckner, Senior Director, Retail Technology, National Retail Federation
Risk management practices will allow companies to remain nimble in adopting new IoT technologies that could transform their operations and impact their business performance positively.
